My family bought the house in 1912. Indeed, on the bottom of the left turret, the date 1912 is carved in the stone, embraced by the two letters C and D which stand for (Léon) Chavenon and the maiden name of his wife, Dayras.
I will insert a small genealogic tree here in the future, but suffice to say now that I'm 50 years old, that I write this in early 2018, and that the Chavenon couple are my great great grand parents.
In 2017, after 105 years of ownership, my family sold this house to Robert and Helen Watson for them to start a new adventure of maintaining and embellishing it. So it's time to share with them some details and stories that would otherwise disappear.
The earliest postcards I found were all taken seemingly at the same period and date back from 1904 or before (based on stamps and dates I found on postcards that were written and mailed).
The spelling of the location is Veulerot (instead of Veullerot, one L is missing).
View from the main alley (North West)
These 2 West views are the same picture, but in different shades and different editions.
This West view picture below was taken on another day, but still in 1904 or before (see the date in the writing)
A list of differences with what can be seen today on the house:
-the chimneys are much taller, maybe one meter or more
-there is no entrance on the North side, the regular door we use today was a window and no stairs were leading to it.
-there was a big roof-window on the West side, above the triangular pediment
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